Nutrition Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity has opened for a Band 7 Nutrition Nurse Specialist at Bedford Hospital. The Nutrition Nurse Specialist (Adult) is an advanced autonomous practitioner providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for adult patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition across Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Band 6 Development Post considered for candidates meeting agreed progression criteria The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives.

Working as a key member of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team, the post holder will work collaboratively with consultants, dietitians, pharmacists, speech and language therapists, community teams and regional specialist centres to ensure safe, evidence-based nutritional care throughout the patient pathway. The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services.

The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support. The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of innovative services. This includes developing an enhanced role in the care of patients with eating disorders and, following appropriate training and competency assessment, contributing to the development of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff.

As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. Our values We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values.

We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences. Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post.

Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job The Nutrition Nurse Specialist (Adult) is an advanced autonomous practitioner providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for adult patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition across Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives. The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services. The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support.

The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of…